Timing of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement in post-stroke patients does not impact mortality, complications, or outcomes

Table 1 Patient demographics

	All (N = 154)		PEG ≤ 7 d (N = 62, 40.26%)		PEG > 7 d (N = 92, 59.74%)		P value
	N	SD	N	SD	N	SD
Age	69.62	15.02	74.65	13.89	66.24	14.87	0.00051
Sex							0.0658
Female	78	50.65	37	59.68	41	44.57
Male	76	49.35	25	40.32	51	55.43
Any comorbidity	147	95.45	59	95.16	88	95.65	1.00002
Number of comorbidities							0.43393
0	7	4.55	3	4.84	4	4.35
1	26	16.88	12	19.35	14	15.22
2	37	24.03	13	20.97	24	26.09
3	41	26.62	17	27.42	24	26.09
4	26	16.88	12	19.35	14	15.22
5	8	5.19	4	6.45	4	4.35
6	5	3.25	0	0.00	5	5.43
7	3	1.95	1	1.61	2	2.17
8	0	0.00	0	0.00	0	0.00
9	1	0.65	0	0.00	1	1.09

¹Obtained by Student's t-test;

²Obtained by Fisher's exact test;

³Obtained by Poisson regression, PEG: Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy, Significant P values are in bold.